Estaury FactsWelcome to the Estaury Facts page By: Kyle B. and Tommy C.
Kingdom Monera (Monerans): Monera or Monerans are single celled organisms that have no nucleus. Scientific Name: Calothrix cyanobacteria
Shape: Jelly-like massLocation: Intertidal rocks on the coast of estuaries
Calothrix cynobacteria that lives on intertidal rocks
Scientific Name: Lyngbya lutescens
Shape: Bacilli
Location: Top of rocks
Lyngbya cyanobacteria that lives on the tops of rocks
Protista or Protists Kingdom Protists (Protista): Protista or Protists are single celled organisms with a nucleus.
Kyle's Algae: Scientific Name: Oscillatoria brevis
Common Name: Japanese Freshwater Algae
Where they live: Japan's freshwater bodies of water Definition of Algae: Algae is an organism that can be either single celled or multicellular.
Algae fun fact: Algae were once considered to be plants but are now classified separately because they don't have true roots, stems, or leaves.
Oscillatoria brevis Japanese Freshwater Algae
Tommy's ProtozoanName: Ichthyophthirius multifiliis. Location: On the eyes and skin of fish. Definition of Protozoan:"Animal-like" it doesn't have cell walls or chlorophyll
FUNGI
Definition: Fungi are multi-celled organisms with a nucleus
Kyle's Fungi
Definition: A phylum known for being cup shaped
Scientific Name: Usnea barbata
Common Name: Apple Lichen
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Usnea
Species: barbata
Where it lives: Coastal waters of estauries
(Estuary) Apple Lichen
Definition: Known for having a thread-like structure
Scientific Name: Mucor ramosissimus
Common Name: Mold Fungi
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Zygomycota
Order: Mucorales
Family: Mucor
Genus: Mucor
Species: ramosissimus
Where it lives: Found on dead decaying matter in estuaries
Mold Fungi (Mucor ramosissimus)
Tommy's Fungi
Basidiomycota
Definition: the basidiomycetes considered as belonging to the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi.
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Basidiomycetes
Order: Aqaricales
Family: Omphalotaceae
Genus: Omphalotus
Species: nidiformis
Common Name: Jack 'o Lantern Mushroom
Location: On the trunk of Trees by water
Chytridiomycota
Definition: The only fungus that reproduces and that contains examples of plants and animals
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Chytridiomycota
Class:Chytridiomycetes
Order:Chytridiales
Family: Synchytriaceae
Genus:Synchytriaceae
Species:endobioticum
Location: On seaplants
Estuary Plants
Definition: Multi-celled, has a cell wall, has chlorophyll
Kyle's Plants
Pinopsida
Definition: within the Kingdom Plantae. Pinophytes are gymnosperms. They are cone-bearing seed plants with vascular tissue.
Kingdom: Plantae
American White Spruce Tree
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Pinaceae
Genus: Picea
Species: Glauca
Common Name: American White Spruce
Where it lives: In cold climates
Rhizophora apiculata
Magnoliopsida
Definition:A phylum within the plant kingdom comprising plants with a vascular system that bear flowers during at least some stage of their life cycle.
Definition: A Division of the kingdom plantae it contains two families, Psilotaceae and Ophioglossaceae, placed in orders Psilotales and Ophioglossales, respectively. The affinities of these two groups have long been unclear and a close relationship between them has only recently been confirmed.
Liliopsida
Definition: comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids. Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Poales Family: Eriocaulaceae Genus:Eriocaulon Species: parkeri Common Name: Parker's Pipewort Where it lives: In marshes and on banks
Bryopsida
Definition: the class of plants comprising the true mosses, having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes; it comprises the orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; and Sphagnales. Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Bryophyta Class: Bryopsida Order: Bryales Family: Bryaceae Genus:Bryum Species:warmeum Common Name: Bryum moss Where it Lives: Along the coasts of Estuaries
Equisetopsida
Definition: A class of the division Equisetophyta whose members made up a major part of the flora, especially in moist or swampy places, during the Carboniferous Period.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:Tracheophyta
Class: Equisetopsida
Order: Equistales
Family: Equisetaceae
Genus: Equistum Species: fluviatile Common Name: Water horsetail
Where it lives: ponds, and marshes at an altitude of 0 to 1,840 meters
Tommy's plants
Genus and species: Thelypteris decursive-pinnata
Common name: Japanese Beech Fern
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polydoiales
Family: Thelypteridaceae
Genus: Thelypteris
species: decursive-pinnata Name: Cyas circinalis
Palm-leaved Cyas
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Cycadopsida
Order Cycadales
Famliy:Cycadaceae
Genus: Cycas species: circinalis
Animals Definition: Any of a kingdom Animalia of living things including many-celled organisms and most often single-celled ones lackingchlorophyll and can not do photosynthesis. Therefore it must hunt for it's food.
Kyle's Plants:
A Boring Sponge
Invertibrate Cliona celata
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Hadromerida
Family: Clionaidae
Genus: Cliona
Species: celata
Common Name: Boring Sponge
Where it lives: Intertidal areas of estauries
Definition of phylum: Have Jelly like bodies
Vertibrate: Anas platyrhynchos
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Subfamily: Anatinae
Genus: Anas
Species: platyrhynchos
Common Name: Green Headed Duck
Where it lives: Freshwater wetlands
Definition of phylum: known for having hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail.
Invertibrate: Scylla serrata
Kingdom: Animalia
Pyhlum: Arthropods
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Portunoidea
Genus: Scylla
Species: serrata
Common Name: common mud crab
Where it lives: Off the coasts of estuaries mostly in the Cheaspeake Bay estuary.
Definition of Phylum: Any of numerous invertebrate animals of the phylum Arthropoda, including the insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and myriapods, that are characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and a segmented body to which jointed appendages are articulated in pairs.
Invertibrate: Anthopleura xanthogrammica
Kingdom: Animal
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Order: Actiniaria
Family: Actiniidae
Genus: Anthopleura
Species: xanthogrammica
Common name: Green Sea Anemone
Where it's found: In the low tide of anb any estuary.
Vertibrate: Careetta caretta
Kingdom- Animalia
Phylum- Chordata
Class- Reptilia
Order- Testudines
Family- Cheloniidae Genus-Caretta
Species-caretta
Common Name: Sea turtle
Where it lives: in deep estuary waters
Defintion of Phylum: are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. They are united by having, at some time in their life cycle, a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Ciconiiformes
Family:Pandionidae
Genus:Pandion
Species:Pandion haliaetus
Common Name: Osprey
Where it lives: Commonly found hovering over the Great Bay Estuary
Definition of phylum or class: Birds, a class of bipedal warm-blooded vertebrates having the body clothed in feathers and front limbs modified as wings. They lay eggs, and most can fly.
Kingdom Monera (Monerans): Monera or Monerans are single celled organisms that have no nucleus.
Scientific Name: Calothrix cyanobacteria
Shape: Jelly-like massLocation: Intertidal rocks on the coast of estuaries
Scientific Name: Lyngbya lutescens
Shape: Bacilli
Location: Top of rocks
Protista or Protists
Kingdom Protists (Protista): Protista or Protists are single celled organisms with a nucleus.
Kyle's Algae:
Scientific Name: Oscillatoria brevis
Common Name: Japanese Freshwater Algae
Where they live: Japan's freshwater bodies of water
Definition of Algae: Algae is an organism that can be either single celled or multicellular.
Algae fun fact: Algae were once considered to be plants but are now classified separately because they don't have true roots, stems, or leaves.
Tommy's Protozoan Name: Ichthyophthirius multifiliis. Location: On the eyes and skin of fish. Definition of Protozoan:"Animal-like" it doesn't have cell walls or chlorophyll
FUNGI
Definition: Fungi are multi-celled organisms with a nucleus
Kyle's Fungi
Definition: A phylum known for being cup shaped
Scientific Name: Usnea barbata
Common Name: Apple Lichen
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Usnea
Species: barbata
Where it lives: Coastal waters of estauries
Definition: Known for having a thread-like structure
Scientific Name: Mucor ramosissimus
Common Name: Mold Fungi
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: ZygomycotaOrder: Mucorales
Family: Mucor
Genus: Mucor
Species: ramosissimus
Where it lives: Found on dead decaying matter in estuaries
Tommy's Fungi
Basidiomycota
Definition: the basidiomycetes considered as belonging to the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi.
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Basidiomycetes
Order: Aqaricales
Family: Omphalotaceae
Genus: Omphalotus
Species: nidiformis
Common Name: Jack 'o Lantern Mushroom
Location: On the trunk of Trees by water
Chytridiomycota
Definition: The only fungus that reproduces and that contains examples of plants and animals
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Chytridiomycota
Class:Chytridiomycetes
Order:Chytridiales
Family: Synchytriaceae
Genus:Synchytriaceae
Species:endobioticum
Location: On seaplants
Estuary Plants
Definition: Multi-celled, has a cell wall, has chlorophyll
Kyle's Plants
Pinopsida
Definition: within the Kingdom Plantae. Pinophytes are gymnosperms. They are cone-bearing seed plants with vascular tissue.
Kingdom: Plantae
American White Spruce Tree
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Pinaceae
Genus: Picea
Species: Glauca
Common Name: American White Spruce
Where it lives: In cold climates
Rhizophora apiculata
Magnoliopsida
Definition:A phylum within the plant kingdom comprising plants with a vascular system that bear flowers during at least some stage of their life cycle.
Kingdom: PlantaePhylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Family: Rhizophoraceae
Genus: Rhizophora
Species: apiculata
Common Name: Mangroves
Where it lives: Off the coast of estuaries
Psilotopsida
Definition: A Division of the kingdom plantae it contains two families, Psilotaceae and Ophioglossaceae, placed in orders Psilotales and Ophioglossales, respectively. The affinities of these two groups have long been unclear and a close relationship between them has only recently been confirmed.
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Psilotopsida
Order: Psilotales
Family: Psilotaceae
Genus: Psilotum
Species: nudum
Common Name: Skeleton Fork Fern
Where it lives: Riverbanks
Liliopsida
Definition: comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Eriocaulaceae
Genus: Eriocaulon
Species: parkeri
Common Name: Parker's Pipewort
Where it lives: In marshes and on banks
Bryopsida
Definition: the class of plants comprising the true mosses, having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes; it comprises the orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; and Sphagnales.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Order: Bryales
Family: Bryaceae
Genus: Bryum
Species: warmeum
Common Name: Bryum moss
Where it Lives: Along the coasts of Estuaries
Equisetopsida
Definition: A class of the division Equisetophyta whose members made up a major part of the flora, especially in moist or swampy places, during the Carboniferous Period.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:Tracheophyta
Class: Equisetopsida
Order: Equistales
Family: Equisetaceae
Genus: Equistum Species: fluviatile Common Name: Water horsetail
Where it lives: ponds, and marshes at an altitude of 0 to 1,840 meters
Tommy's plants
Genus and species: Thelypteris decursive-pinnata
Common name: Japanese Beech Fern
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polydoiales
Family: Thelypteridaceae
Genus: Thelypteris
species: decursive-pinnata Name: Cyas circinalis
Palm-leaved Cyas
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Cycadopsida
Order Cycadales
Famliy:Cycadaceae
Genus: Cycas species: circinalis
Animals
Definition: Any of a kingdom Animalia of living things including many-celled organisms and most often single-celled ones lacking chlorophyll and can not do photosynthesis. Therefore it must hunt for it's food.
Kyle's Plants:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Hadromerida
Family: Clionaidae
Genus: Cliona
Species: celata
Common Name: Boring Sponge
Where it lives: Intertidal areas of estauries
Definition of phylum: Have Jelly like bodies
Vertibrate: Anas platyrhynchos
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Subfamily: Anatinae
Genus: Anas
Species: platyrhynchos
Common Name: Green Headed Duck
Where it lives: Freshwater wetlands
Definition of phylum: known for having hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail.
Invertibrate: Scylla serrata
Kingdom: Animalia
Pyhlum: Arthropods
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Portunoidea
Genus: Scylla
Species: serrata
Common Name: common mud crab
Where it lives: Off the coasts of estuaries mostly in the Cheaspeake Bay estuary.
Definition of Phylum: Any of numerous invertebrate animals of the phylum Arthropoda, including the insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and myriapods, that are characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and a segmented body to which jointed appendages are articulated in pairs.
Invertibrate: Anthopleura xanthogrammica
Kingdom: Animal
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Order: Actiniaria
Family: Actiniidae
Genus: Anthopleura
Species: xanthogrammica
Common name: Green Sea Anemone
Where it's found: In the low tide of anb any estuary.
Vertibrate: Careetta caretta
Kingdom- Animalia
Phylum- Chordata
Class- Reptilia
Order- Testudines
Family- Cheloniidae Genus- Caretta
Species- caretta
Common Name: Sea turtle
Where it lives: in deep estuary waters
Defintion of Phylum: are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. They are united by having, at some time in their life cycle, a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Ciconiiformes
Family: Pandionidae
Genus: Pandion
Species: Pandion haliaetus
Common Name: Osprey
Where it lives: Commonly found hovering over the Great Bay Estuary
Definition of phylum or class: Birds, a class of bipedal warm-blooded vertebrates having the body clothed in feathers and front limbs modified as wings. They lay eggs, and most can fly.
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